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...heads of the various athletic associations at Yale have adopted the same plan to go into effect immediately. This was done without any authority save the advice of the Yale Advisory Committee. In view of this action the Yale Law School, which according to this new rule is entirely shut out from athletic teams, held a meeting the object of which was to urge a meeting of the entire university to vote whether or not the captains and managers have the right to pass such rules. This meeting will be held tonight and it is generally known that...
Harvard's first official action in regard to the new undergraduate rule was taken last night, in refusing to accept Yale's proposition to row the race next July under new conditions. The correspondence between the two universities is given below and is self-explanatory...
DEAR SIR. - Yale has decided to try to confine all her athletics to undergraduate students and in accordance with the determination I hereby offer to row the annual race with Harvard under the following specifications which are to be substituted for the first sentence in rule XXVI of the rules which at present govern the boat races between Harvard and Yale...
...regard to undergraduates on 'varsity teams. Although expressing himself strongly in favor of the effort to exclude all professional element from college sports and denying that Yale's action was taken with intent of "freezing out" the University of Pennsylvania, he does not commit himself as favoring the new rule. He argues with more or less reason that it is a narrow policy to exclude men in the professional school from participating in athletic contests and unjust to the honest student. He admits that with the membership of teams limited to university undergraduates, "the future of honest, pure sport would...
...Haven there is not unity of opinion. Reports in yesterday's papers stated that the members of all departments of the Yale Law School had met and after thoroughly discussing the situation for an hour, appointed a committee of three to enter a formal protest against applying the undergraduate rule to baseball...